20 GHz bandwidth in a compact USB instrumentThe PicoScope 9300 Series oscilloscopes use triggered sequential sampling to capture high-bandwidth repetitive or clock-derived signals without the expense or jitter of a very high-speed clocked sampling system such as a real-time oscilloscope. The 20 GHz bandwidth allows measurement of 17.5 ps transitions, while the very low sampling jitter enables a time resolution as short as 0.064 ps. The sequential sampling rate of 1 MS/s, unsurpassed by any other sampling oscilloscope, allows the fast building of waveforms, eye diagrams and histograms.

These units occupy very little space on your workbench and are small enough to carry with your laptop for on-site testing, but that’s not all. Instead of using remote probe heads attached to a large bench-top unit, you can now position the scope right next to the device under test. Now all that lies between your scope and the DUT is a short, low-loss coaxial cable!

Everything you need is built into the oscilloscope, with no expensive hardware or software add-ons to worry about.

Triggers and Clock Data Recovery (CDR)

Optional 9.5 GHz Optical Input

TDR / TDT Analysis

Built-in signal generator

PicoSample 3 software

Measurement of over 100 waveform parameters with statistics

Powerful mathematical analysis

Histogram analysis

Eye–diagram analysis

Mask testing

FFT analysis

Sampling modes

Software Development Kit

Remember: the price you pay for your PicoScope Sampling Oscilloscope is the price you pay for everything — we don’t charge you for software features or updates.

Acquired signals are tested for fit outside areas defined by up to eight polygons.Standard or user-defined masks can be selected.

Built-in masks, ANSI T1.102

DS1 (1.544 Mb/s) to STS3 (155.520 Mb/s)

Built-in masks, Ethernet

1.25 Gb/s 1000Base-CX Absolute TP2 to 10xGB Ethernet (12.5 Gb/s)

Built-in masks, Fibre Channel

FC133 (132.8 Mb/s) to 10x Fibre Channel (10.5188 Gb/s)

Built-in masks, G.984.2

XAUI-E Far (3.125 Gb/s)

Built-in masks, InfiniBand

2.5G (2.5 Gb/s) to 5.0G (5 Gb/s)

Built-in masks, ITU G.703

DS1 (1.544 Mb/s) to 155 Mb (155.520 Mb/s)

Built-in masks, PCI Express

R1.0a 2.5G (2.5 Gb/s) to R2.1 5.0G (5 Gb/s)

Built-in masks, RapidIO

Level 1, 1.25 Gb/s to 3.125 Gb/s

Built-in masks, SATA

1.5G (1.5 Gb/s) to 3.0G (3 Gb/s)

Built-in masks, SONET/SDH

OC1/STMO (51.84 Mb/s) to FEC 1071 (10.709 Gb/s)

Built-in masks, USB

USB 3.0 (5 Gb/s), USB 3.1 (10 Gb/s)

Built-in masks, XAUI

3.125 Gb/s

Display

Styles

Dots, vectors, persistence, grey scaling, color grading

Persistence time

Variable or infinite

Screen formats

Auto, single YT, dual YT, quad YT, XY, XY + YT, XY + 2 YT

Environmental

Temperature range (operating)

+5 °C to +35 °C.

Temperature range (stated accuracy)

+15 °C to +25 °C.

Temperature range (storage)

−20 °C to +50 °C

Physical properties

Dimensions

170 mm x 260 mm x 40 mm (W x D x H)

Weight

1.2 kg max

Software

PicoSample 3 for Windows

PicoSample 3 software has many advanced features such as mathematical analysis, histogram analysis, eye-diagram analysis and mask testing. All features are included as standard. Updates can be downloaded for free.

Software development kit

The SDK allows you to control the scope from your own program. The software can act as an ActiveX COM server, allowing any program to send commands to it using a standard Windows protocol. This is ideal for production–test environments where multiple scopes need to be controlled from a single PC, or where automated tests need to be run. The SDK contains full documentation and example code for various programming languages.